BATON ROUGE — The East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council is set to vote on another pay raise for public employees during its May 13 meeting.

The council will cast votes on a proposal to institute a 3.5% raise for all city-parish employees, excluding the district attorney, coroner and public defender offices. 

The plan comes after last month's vote to increase Baton Rouge Police pay. The BRPD raise was a nearly 40% department-wide raise that brought starting pay from $40,000 to $58,000 a year, among other increases.

If approved, the city-parish-wide pay raise would take effect June 27 and would cost the city-parish $4.2 million for the rest of this year and $8 million annually. The money for this would come from the city-parish general fund.