CITY COUNCIL NEARLY DONE MOVING INTO ITS NEW, TEMPORARY DIGS.

Byline: Rick Orlov and Patrick McGreevy / Daily News Staff Writers

If you can't fight City Hall, you might as well move it.

That's what's happening this weekend as the final group of City Council members moves from Los Angeles City Hall at 200 N. Spring St. to City Hall East at 200 N. Main St.

An army of movers over the past month gradually relocated council members to their new quarters.

``I've spent 32 years in that building,'' said City Council President John Ferraro, who gave up a spacious office for more confining digs on the third floor of City Hall East.

``I almost cried when I had to leave,'' Ferraro said. ``It's sad. You accumulate a lot of memories.

City Hall will remain partially in business until April 14, when the council meetings will move to City Hall East.

Officials have cleaned out old files and closets, unearthing memorabilia such as dusty campaign posters, ancient records bearing old campaign promises and faded photographs from decades ago that look like publicity stills for ``L.A. Confidential.''

Councilwoman Laura Chick said she regrets the need to move from a building with so much character, history and architectural significance.

``I'm one of the four of us on the council who know we will not be coming back to City Hall,'' Chick said, referring to her last term, which ends about the time the building retrofit will be done.

``There is nothing aesthetic or particularly pleasing to the eye about (City Hall East),'' she said.

Because the City Charter requires the council to meet three times a week in City Hall, the council voted earlier this month to change the name of City Hall East to City Hall.

For the three or more years of construction, the real City Hall will have no official name.

Some have started referring to it as ``the old City Hall'' or ``City Hall West'' - or, as one council aide put it, ``City Hull.''