This article follows up on the authors’ 1988 rejoinder to the symposium “Budgeting for Improved Productivity,” which appeared in the spring 1987 issue of Public Productivity Review. Using data from a national survey of local government budget practitioners conducted in 1996, 10 years after the first article’s survey, the authors investigate trends in the use and importance of budgeting tools related to productivity. In particular, this article critically examines whether the 1996 survey data support the prediction made in the earlier article of an ongoing trend toward greater emphasis on productivityenhancing management practices in local government.