Ald. Sarah Vogelsinger is stepping down from the Batavia City Council.

Her intention to resign was announced by Mayor Jeff Schielke at the Tuesday, Sept. 2, City Council meeting.

At the meeting, Vogelsinger called it “a really hard decision.”

“This is largely because my husband worked over 300 hours of overtime last year in the form of six-day weeks and holdovers,” she said at Tuesday’s meeting.

The second-term City Council member said her family’s schedule has become more challenging given her husband’s hours as an air traffic controller and as her children, 10 and 13 years old, got busier.

In addition to serving on the council, Vogelsinger works as a teacher at Geneva High School. On Wednesday, she told The Beacon-News she returned to the classroom last school year and has a larger

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