The Los Rios Community College District will hold a special election on Oct. 10 and Oct. 11 to extend the benefits of the Los Rios-RT Universal Transit Pass Program to fall 2028.
Measure A affects all students at all four Los Rios campuses enrolled in one or more units and aims to continue to save students hundreds of dollars a year on public transport. 

If passed, the measure will allow students to purchase a spring and fall semester pass for unlimited rides on RT buses and light rail for a fee of $3 per unit per semester. Fees will be capped at $36 per semester for those enrolled in 12 or more units and a summer pass will be a flat $13. By comparison, the public pays $500 for an annual RT pass. The fees will be fixed and not adjusted with inflation.

All registered students are eligible to vote via eServices.
Students are being asked to vote to approve Measure A to keep the program in place. If it is not approved by a simple majority, the program will end in December.
On Wednesday morning, the Associated Students of Cosumnes River College, also called the Student Senate, set up a pop-up tent outside the library and offered information about Measure A to students.
“Next week there is an election being held. We are deciding whether we want to extend the contract between Los Rios and SacRT to help make sure the UTP is offered to students,” said Student Senate Treasurer Holden Alameda, as he staffed the tent. “What we want to do is let students know this election is going on. We want to try to get as many students to vote for it.”
Alameda, 20, a film production major, said he drives to school several times a week from Elk Grove.
“The tough reality behind it is almost 6,000 students use this and this totally makes it a lot more affordable,” Alameda said. “If this goes away, those 6,000 students will lose the benefit.”
English major Kaitlyn Holt, 23, said she was planning on voting for lowering the overall fee. Holt said she drives to school five days a week from Natomas but she used RT for many years to get to campus.
“I could see how for a lot of students that can’t afford a car, can’t afford insurance and this is their only option. They use it so often it only makes sense to lower it,” Holt said. “It gets used. It’s well used.”
Jannette Manriquez, 19, a medical assisting major, said she hadn’t heard about the election. Manriquez said she likes taking the bus once a week to and from campus from Galt and pays the daily fee of $1.50.
“It’s not a big expense,” Manriquez said.
The Student Senate pop-up also offered a “UTP VOTE” flyer containing bullet points on the different outcomes in favor or against the measure and three QR codes.
“It shouldn’t cost anything,” Holt said. “Hopefully lowering it will move us towards it being free.”