Regular Sessions

• The first regular meeting is held on June 15 annually, and only in the year of the general election. the date for the
  regular meeting shall be set during September and October by the council's decision.
• The second regular session is held on Dec 5 annually.
• A regular session is held only through the public announcements without a separate request for assembly
  - A duration of a session: 40 days a year
  - Main work aspects : Execution of the administrative affairs audit on the overall administrative matters according
  to the standing committee in charge
  As for the proposals for budgets and accounts settlement, there are a standing committee's preliminary
  deliberation and a special budget settlement committee's overall deliberation. Dealing with ordinance bills

Extraordinary sessions

• Assembly request for a extraordinary sessions should be made by the head of the local autonomy[Mayor] or by
  a joint signature by more than one third of the register roll; then the Chairman is required to convoke a extraordinary
  session within 15 days.
• In times of request for a temporary meeting, assembly takes place when the chairman makes announcements about
  it five days before assembly and notify the whole members of it.
  - The duration of a session: 50 days a year (cannot exceed 15 days in a session)
  - Main activities in the session : Hearing explanations from the executive organizations about the main pending
  issues in administrative affairs and discuss counter-plan to clear up Reviews on proposed bills such as
  ordinance bills

• A plenany session is the top legislative organ in making decisions of the council.
  Before going into a meeting, the day's meeting procedures, in which dates and times for the opening and agenda
  brought up as well as its order for discussion, are listed and reference data on bills are handed out at the
  members' desk in advance. The meeting begins when the attendance meets the quorum- more than a third of the
  officially registered members.
  On the first assembly day making the start-up of a session, there usually is an opening ceremony before the start
  of the plenary session, at which the executive officers including mayor are usually present.
  
  After the ceremony, the speaker's declaration of opening the meeting, he/she first reports the necessary points
  such as proposal making, proposal laying and review report laying, which council members should know for
  smooth meeting procedures and then, the chairman lays items for discussion by the order listed in the agenda and
  deals with them.
  On the first day of a meeting, comparatively simple things such as the opening ceremony, decision about the
  duration of a session and election of the member being in charge of making signatures on the assembly records,
  etc. are precedently handled.
  
  If we take a look at the bill dealing procedures in the plenary session, after an items for discussion is laid, council
  members hear explanation of his/her proposed bill or preliminarily reviewed reports by the committee. Then, through
  the course of inquiries, responses and discussion, the council goes into decision making by votes.
  In case of inquiries, the head of the committee which reviewed an item or a council member who reported reviews
  makes a supplementary explanation; in case of proposal explanations, the council member who proposed or a
  member who made proposal explanations is supposed to make answers. The discussion of a proposed item is to
  be conducted by the order of "pros" to "cons."
  After discussion, the chairman declares voting with the closure of discussion．
  
  Voting is the final step of item deliberation deciding pros and cons by grasping cons and pros for the proposed item.
  There are some ways of voting; unanimous agreement, hand-lifting vote, standing vote, unsigned and signed votes.
  If there is a counter-discussion, most of general items are frequently dealt with by standing votes; in case there is
  no counter-discussion of an item, unanimous votes which is a way of "objection or no" is adopted.
  In addition, in case there passes a vote at the general meeting by the chairman's proposal or a member's making a
  motion as to the voting methods, voting may be conducted like the way plenary session does. Lastly, in case of
  all kinds of election carried out at the council, unsigned voting is usually adopted in so far as there is no specific
  regulation.
  
  Excepting some specific matters, voting on general proposed items is decided by more than a half of the attendance
  form the registered members and "pros" of more than a half of the present.
  
  The speaker also has a voting right. If the results of the ballot counting of pros and cons are just the same,
  the proposed item is regard as rejected