In 1993, the California Community Colleges' Commission on Innovation published recommendations for the colleges to accommodate more students, respond to growing student diversity, and provide students with more advanced education and skills for the future. Included in the report are estimates of cost and savings for implementation. Focusing on these figures, this document provides the detailed technical and cost assumptions that provided the bases for the Commission's estimates. Section I explains the assumptions and costs associated with the following investment initiatives recommended by the Commission: (1) instructional and student services innovation grants; (2) faculty development programs; (3) faculty development centers; (4) assessment system pilots; (5) data capabilities enhancement; (6) grants for demonstrating more efficient management practices; (7) high performance reward program; (8) funding an Institute for Technology and Distance Education; (9) multimedia grants; (10) High Technology Centers demonstration grants; (11) strengthening the Chancellor's Office capabilities; and (12) instructional innovation planning grants. This section also describes the terms of recommended technology bonds. Section II focuses on the Commission's technology recommendations, including distance education, new learning technologies, and the formation of high technology centers. Section III discusses the models that generated the Commission's estimates of facilities-related savings resulting from distance education, afternoon scheduling, and year-round operations. Finally, section IV focuses on estimates of savings resulting from more efficient management practices adopted from the "quality movement." Data tables are included throughout. Contains 410 references. (KP)