An updated version of a comprehensive public buildings and facilities plan for Warren County was accepted by supervisors Monday.

Nearly identical to a preliminary version completed in May, it contained a few more details about the county’s two largest buildings, the courthouse and jail.

Space in the courthouse and jail figure prominently in the report prepared by Central Mississippi Planning and Development District. In short, the report recommends a second circuit courtroom and doubling the number of beds in the jail to accommodate a population expected to keep rising in the next 20 years.

It does not specifically address building a new jail, but most estimates are that would cost $10 million. A bond issue would be the only way to pay for it, supervisors have said.

The plan is the first step in an $85,000 study started a year ago to determine county building needs.

The report gave favorable reviews of available space at the Board of Supervisors offices on Jackson Street, the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library, the fire protection district and the road department offices off U.S. 61 North. It recommended parking improvements for Justice Court.

Absent from the draft was the county-owned U.S. 80 bridge across the Mississippi River, for which securing federal grant money to help pay for a pedestrian park and bike path atop the former roadbed is under way.

CMPDD officials said at the project’s start that the full report would take 18 to 24 months to prepare. A land- and road-use plan was to be the next draft up for analysis by supervisors.