A group of Bronx clergy leaders, including some with deep ties to the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, are rallying today at noon on the steps of Bronx Borough Hall to demand that the New York State Senate adopt an Assembly-approved plan to increase the state’s minimum wage to $9 an hour and make the rate tied to inflation.

The group is specifically calling on Senate co-leader Jeff Klein, a Bronx Democrat whose Independent Democratic Conference shares power with Republicans, to push for an indexed wage increase, which passed in the Democrat-controlled Assembly and is supported by the 27 other Democrats in the Senate.

Anna Durrett, a spokesperson for Klein, says the co-leader is immersed in negotiations about minimum wage and other budget talks and that he’s on record saying he supported a higher minimum wage that is tied to inflation. But, she said, Klein was working to come up with a bipartisan compromise on minimum wage and that the most important thing was to pass some kind of a wage hike now.

“It’s most important that [the legislature] actually do something [to increase the minimum wage],” Durrett said. “He’s very practical at the end of the day.”

Durrett said a compromise might include tax breaks for businesses to help off-set some of the cost increases that would come with a minimum wage hike. She said the base amount of the hike had yet to be determined and noted that Governor Cuomo, also a Democrat, had not included an inflation index in his own budget plan.

In promoting the rally, the group cited a recent Siena University poll saying more than 75 percent of New Yorkers supported a $9 minimum wage.