(AP) — Sedgwick County officials want the state to increase funding for a ranch for juvenile offenders, but the top Kansas corrections official says that might be a tough sell because of all the surplus bed space in other facilities.

County Manager William Buchanan told Corrections Secretary Ray Roberts on Wednesday that unless the state increases the $126 it pays per boy each day, he will recommend closing the Judge James V. Riddel Boys Ranch near Afton on July 1.

Buchanan says it costs about $206 per day to run the facility, which serves medium- to high-risk juvenile offenders on 63 wood acres 23 miles west of Wichita.

The facility nearly closed this year before the state provided a one-time infusion of $750,000.