Do yourselves a favor and follow through with it all the way to the end. Do not allow them to cave into pressure and meet your demands once you collect the needed signatures. The number of officials who do what they want until they are put in their place has become status quo and letting them keep their jobs enables them to continue that behavior. At some point they start losing fear of the people and become career politicians. You get one chance, after which people lose faith in the system and don't even bother signing a page anymore.