The Turlock City Council heard about a number of critical unmet needs throughout City departments during a special budget workshop held on Saturday, including an emergency request to fund a $6 million project to replace Turlock’s failing emergency radio system. While Turlock’s financial situation is stable, with revenues increasing every year for the past four years, if the Council were to approve funding for all the critical needs there would be no financial cushion if (or when, according to history) there’s an economic downturn. In June 2017, the Council adopted a “baseline” budget that did not address any of the staffing shortfalls presented by City department heads at a previous budget workshop.