Three weeks after the East Baton Rouge Metro Council approved the largest single pay increase for Baton Rouge police in department history, the group will vote on another plan to increase government employee salaries.
If approved on May 13, the proposal would institute a 3.5% raise for employees of all city-parish departments — though the district attorney, coroner and public defender offices are not included.
The plan, crafted by Mayor-President Sid Edwards, comes in tandem with Democrats’ push ahead of the police pay vote last month and calls for sweeping raises recommended in a 2024 compensation study…