Woodnote's town hall is also multipurpose; its ground floor more commonly serves as a meal hall than a political one. The back room on the ground floor is the kitchen, where 3-5 not-cats at a time work in rotating days to prepare daily luncheon. (Breakfast and dinner are often more personal, though the communal kitchen is open to anyone who wants to cook during those hours.)
Debates over new rules do happen in the town hall when needed. Rules that effect the entire village happen on the ground floor, where there's space for the whole village to pile in and have their voices heard. When the mayor is elected, the ballot box is also kept there for not-cats to filter and drop off their votes over the course of the day. More private talks happen upstairs - there are four rooms, each one denoted for the geode outside its door. Thus they're called, in turn, the Diamond, Ruby, Sapphire, and Amethyst rooms.