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Mr. Gary Mizuno Page 3 March 20, 1989 • The state statute thus provides that a majority of the members to which a commission is entitled (five out of nine in the case of the planning commission) is necessary to validate the action, unless an ordinance or other law provides otherwise. It therefore becomes necessary to determine whether charter section 13-4(i) provides differently from HRS §92-15 . Charter provisions and statutes are to be reconciled and not regarded as superseding each other where there is no irreconcilable conflict between them. 6 McQuillin, Municipal Corporations, §21. 31. Therefore, if there is authority supporting an interpretation of Hawaii County Charter §13-4(i) which makes it consistent with HRS §92-15 , then that consistent position should be adopted. Although there is authority supporting the opinion of December 11, 1972 [see Ram Development Co. v . Shaw, 244 N.W. 2d 110 (Minn. 1976) ; City of Alamo, Heightsy Gerety, 264 S.W.2d 778 (Tex. Civ. App. 1954) ] , the greater number of cases supports the position that the term "entire membership" means the same as "all the members to which a board or commission is entitled, " thus • making the charter section consistent with the state statute. A recent case dealing with this issue is found in Braddv v. Zych, 702 S.W.2d 491 (Mo. App. 1985) which dealt with the required number of votes to pass an ordinance by the St . Louis Board of Alderman. Ordinances had been passed by the board and then vetoed by the Mayor. The city .charter required that a two-thirds vote of the board was required to overturn a veto. The board consisted of twenty-nine members, with a president elected at large and twenty-eight alderman elected from wards within the city. In Braddy, the board voted on overturning the veto, which resulted in 19 votes in favor, 6 against, 3 absent, and 1 vacancy. The president of the board ruled that the veto had been overridden, because two thirds of the actual membership of the board voted • favorably, with the number of alderman reduced by the single vacancy. The court disagreed with this interpretation and ruled that the term "all the members" means all of the members to which the board is entitled: "Treating the language ' all the members ' as referring to the entire Board as defined in the Charter ter creates a predictability and definiteness in the requirements for the enaction of laws . It also gives substance to the charter scheme that representatives of sufficient wards to adequately represent the residents of the city support an enactment before it becomes binding on 753 _