LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A tiny Nebraska village that sells millions of cans of beer each year near a South Dakota Indian reservation is consuming a sizeable chunk of the surrounding county’s budget.

Sheridan County Commissioner James Krotz says law enforcement accounts for roughly 35 percent of the county’s budget, largely because of Whiteclay on the border of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. His comments were disclosed Friday in documents obtained through an open-records request by activists who want to shutter Whiteclay’s four beer stores.

The stores sold the equivalent of 3.5 million cans of beer last year despite having only a dozen residents. Local residents, officials and business owners have been meeting at Gov. Pete Ricketts’ urging to try to address panhandling and violence in the village, but they haven’t reached an agreement.