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Web Only Apr 15, 2021 By Laurie Lauletta-Boshart
Active volunteer. Accomplished professional. Working mother.
Krista Bernasconi, Jill Gayaldo and Alyssa Silhi proudly claim
each of these monikers. And this year, one more: mayor.
For the first time, Placer County’s three largest cities are
headed by a woman mayor: Krista Bernasconi in Roseville, Jill
Gayaldo for Rocklin and Alyssa Silhi in Lincoln. All three cities
have at-large elections where city councilmembers are elected for
a four-year term with a mayoral rotational system (prior to the
2020 election, the top vote getter in Roseville City Council
elections would serve a two-year term as vice mayor, followed by