in addition we're working with a store union labor union and we're tacking some of their suggestions in making improvements and so i want to recognize them all. thank you very much for the award >> thank you very much (clapping.) >> next, i want to ask the director of streets to recognize one of our astounding parking control officers. >> good afternoon mr. yee. >> good afternoon chair nolan and members of the board and director edward reiskin and sfmta. i'm really pleased to announce our winner maria this is quite an awe suspicious occasion it's here one year anniversary pr i hope we don't raise her expectations so much she'll expect something every year. i want to announce our manager of our enforcement division >> thank you. good afternoon. chairperson nolan and members of the board and he reiskin. so today we would like to honor parking control officer maria for her hard work and dedication. she's been with our division for one year now. and one sunday october 27th of last year maria was patrolling an assigned area in the marina district she observed two malls in an altercation a

i'm not sure how deep that discussion is going to be but add union labor and union grocery store and we'll appreciate having that discussion added on that. again withhold to continue to participate into the stakeholder and any other meetings that planning may pilth put together. i appreciate he everyone consideration >> thank you. next speaker, please for those who are in line. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> anyone interested to speak? >> good afternoon. commissioners and planning staff i'm pamela and i want to thank you for the opportunity to speak today. i would like to provide you all with a copy of a formula retail mapping prong that has been conducted by the local brokerage community. we've done our best to survey every neighborhood. what's not concluded in this report is the study of chinatown and bayview and outer mission. we have not included union square. we've found a vacancy rate of 4.8 percent and 13 percent formula retail and within that group of formula retails 36 percent are locally bay area local chains. take a look at the facts and incorporate those into our

unions fired up over a plan to put post offices in your local staples store? stay with us. sonoma company. ♪ ♪ ♪ gerri: post office labor unions threatening a boycott. details coming up next. gerri: the post office union over a retail partnership. after union members picketed headquarters in chicago. it's always great to have you here. so was that the postal service is idea to actually do this? what is going on? >> a lot of grocery stores, now the program is expanding and rolling out across the country. the average postal worker earns over $90,000 a year in salary and benefits. gerri: the postal service is losing a ton of money. will this help them if they can sell some of their products? ultimately is a good management decision? >> the hours of these stories are more normal than the nine to five. so it helps consumers and the question is what is the alternative. the alternative is that we can't keep 32,000 post office is open all the time. and so some of them are going to have to close. it would be nice if people could still have access to facilities somewhere. the post office is going to have to change and it already has. did you know the last 10 years it has shed one third of its workforce? it has