3,642.  That’s the number of signature petition organizers say they gathered over the last two weeks in an effort to get Cheyenne’s recently enacted city wide cellphone ban revoked.  State law requires a challenge to a municipal ordinace must be signed by 10-percent of registered voters in that community for an ordinance to be reconsidered or even put to a special election.  That’s what the local group “Can You Hear Us Now” is hoping for.  They want the city council to either revoke the ordinace, or put the measure to a city-wide vote.  Deputy City Clerk Christine Anderson earlier said all signatures on this petition must be registered voters and they must live in the city limits of Cheyenne.

Petition group member M. Lee Hasenour tells flagship station KFBC, the signatures meet the standard…(Click here for comment from M. Lee Hasenour)

Hasenour says not all the signatures are from people who are necessarily against the new cellphone ban…(Second comment from M. Lee Hasenour)

City officials will verify if the signatures are registered voters.

Anderson says if the signatures are verified and a city vote is called for she says the vote would cost city taxpayers between $50,000 and $60,000.  Earlier when asked why the group didn’t make its opposition to the ban known during three public hearings on the matter before the city council approved the ban, Hasenour said his group didn’t think the council would pass such an ordinace.  The ordinace does have the backing of the Cheyenne police department.