(a) Rules. The Council shall determine its own rules and Order of Business.
(b) Meetings. Council shall hold a regular meeting at least twice each month in the evening on a day and place as the Council may prescribe by rule.
(c) Special meetings. Special meetings may be held on the call of the President of Council or at least four members of Council at such time and place and under such conditions as the Council may prescribe by rule.
(d) Meetings open to the public. All meetings shall be open to the public, except executive sessions as authorized by law. The chambers shall be arranged in such a way as to have all members of Council facing the public.
(e) Voting. All action shall be at a public session; shall require a majority full vote of Council, except in the case of a vote to override a veto, which shall require an affirmative vote of five members, and in the case of passage of an ordinance, which shall require a majority vote of Council as a whole unless otherwise specified in this Charter; voting shall be by roll call vote, and the vote of each member of the Council shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting.
(f) The Council shall provide for keeping of a journal of its proceedings. The journal shall be a public record, and shall be maintained in City Hall and a copy in the Reading Public Library and the Berks County Law Library.