An updated report by Facilities Development Corp. concerning the capability of the Montgomery County Jail for housing Fulton County prisoners, concluding it isn't an answer to the jail problem in the county, was among communications listed at Monday's meeting of the Fulton County Board of Supervisors.

The report, based on a capacity of 77 beds in the Montgomery County facility, 70 for males and seven for females, concluded that by as early as next year the Montgomery County Jail might not be able to house all of Fulton County sentenced and unsentenced prisoners.

The report was directed to Supervisor Michael J. Mongin of Johnstown's 4th Ward chairman of the public safety committee, from Andrew Mitropoulos, director of development for Facilities Development Corp.

Facilities Development Corp. is a quasi-public corporation that the county has retained to do its work in evaluating options for constructing a new jail.

At a meeting Oct. 17 with the committee, the firm was asked to evaluate and update a 1978 report done by Donald J. Stephens Associates, which looked at the feasibility of housing all Fulton County prisoners in Montgomery County.

Mongin said Monday that it is the understanding that the Montgomery County facility actually has more than the 77 beds used for the Facilities Development Corp. conclusions.

Mitropoulos noted that the Stephens evaluation from 1978 was written based on the assumption that the Fulton County Jail would continue to house pre-trial or presentenced inmates, and since the Fulton County Jail has been closed, conclusions drawn in the Stephens report are no longer valid.

He said that conclusions drawn by FDC show that "during 1980 there will be at least 55 days when Montgomery County will not be able to accept all of Fulton County's offender population. For those peak days, Fulton County will have to either find alternatives to detention as a way to reduce the number requiring housing, send the excess elsewhere or reopen its existing jail on a temporary basis. The excesses would vary from one to six offenders for 55 peaking days.

Mitropoulos went on to say that "by 1985 Fulton County will have to house independently all of its insentenced population (up to 19 offenders). In addition, Montgomery County will no longer be able to take all of Fulton County's sentenced offenders during at least 15 days of that year. In succeeding years the number of days over capacity will increase and by 1989 Montgomery County will have closed the doors of its jail to Fulton County."

The updated report went on to point to escalating costs for items such as fuel, food and labor that will eventually have to affect the current per diem rate of $25, up to $40 or more by 1985. It went on to estimate the cost to Fulton County in 1980 to house prisoners there to exceed $275,000.

Another factor noted was that increased mileage to transport prisoners will also be a factor as Montgomery County becomes less and less capable of handling Fulton County's prisoners and they will have to be housed elsewhere.