{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-388.1812","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Comp. Laws § 388.1812","heading":"Cost-containment measures and efficiencies.","body":"Sec. 212.\n\nCommunity college districts are encouraged to evaluate and pursue efficiency and cost-containment measures that maximize state funding. Community colleges shall identify practices that increase efficiencies, including, but not limited to, establishing joint ventures, consolidating services, utilizing program collaborations, maximizing educational benefits through optimal class sizes and frequency of course offerings, eliminating low-enrollment and high-cost instructional programs, using self-insurance, practicing energy conservation, and utilizing group purchasing. Community colleges shall also review proposed capital outlay projects to increase coordination and utilization of new facilities, renovation projects, and technology improvements.","path":["MI Code","Chapter 388","Act Act-94-of-1979"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-388-1812","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"5d5cd8e3c0c7beb6f83a4ddc4ccc9f1448f6826c479652cacd089fd2a1a8985a","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-388.1810d","next":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-388.1816e"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}