BATON ROUGE - The board for the Capital Area Transit System unanimously decided Tuesday evening its CEO will get a salary increase.

The decision was made in a 4:30 p.m. meeting of the CATS board. The raise will bump Bill Deville's current pay of $157,000 by three percent.

Deville has served as the CEO since Sept. 20, 2016, when he was unanimously appointed by the board.