Each year, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (CCC) develops and adopts a Basic Agenda that sets forth current priorities for the 107-college system. Guided by emerging trends and issues, this Basic Agenda constitutes the Board of Governor's long-range planning document for the 1990's. The report's preface and introduction describe the principal tasks of the CCC for the coming decade, which include maintaining the mission of the CCC; providing Californians, particularly those traditionally underrepresented in higher education and the workplace, with access to quality programs in transfer and career education, and in basic skills and English as a Second Language (ESL); providing effective leadership to the CCC through shared governance and management; helping the colleges become more cost effective; and maintaining quality instruction and student support services. The following five sections of the report examine in greater detail these aspects of mission; access; governance; fiscal policy; and educational quality, proposing specific initiatives for strengthening programs and policies in each of these areas. Among the initiatives and recommendations presented in the report are the following: (1) implement guaranteed transfer provisions; (2) reaffirm the CCC support for vocational education; (3) hold chief executive officers accountable for affirmative action in faculty and staff hiring; (4) explore ways to secure funding through partnerships with public and private agencies; (5) consider child care as a priority in college capital outlay; (6) offer more ESL and basic skills courses; and (7) attract qualified faculty from business and industry. (PAA)