Heidi Wegleitner, a Dane County Board supervisor representing Madison's east side, wants the county to boost funding for a day shelter facility from $600,000 to $4 million and use it to fund a downtown location instead of the town of Madison facility it is slated to purchase.

She introduced a resolution Thursday calling for the increased funding.

“I think it would be good to at least try to do this the way we really want to do it – downtown,” Wegleitner said in a message to homeless services advocates.

Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced April 3 that the county had an accepted offer to buy a property at 1490 Martin St. in the town of Madison from Porchlight, Inc. for $330,000. The facility, now used for Porchlight’s Hospitality House day program, would require extensive renovations to prepare it to provide full day services, including showers, for up to 80 people a day, county officials have said. Deadline to open the center is Nov. 1.

The county has been working to establish a permanent day center for the homeless since early 2012, and officials and staff have been criticized for not making more progress on it.