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 Advocate reports.

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.

The Advocate reports that, 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.