The Eurométropole of Strasbourg is preparing to review its financial situation after a recent municipal council meeting. Elected officials from the 33 communes that make up the Strasbourg agglomeration are set to meet on Friday, October 9, to vote on a supplementary budget for 2026. This follows a financial audit commissioned by the new political majority, which aims to adjust the budget approved in December 2025 and modify several program credits and authorizations. The audit showed that the Eurométropole's debt increased from 579 million euros in 2020 to 911 million euros by the end of 2026. The financial situation is described as "very constrained," with revenues falling short by 8.9 million euros compared to forecasts. Carole Barrière, vice-president in charge of finances, explained that spending reductions are "only shifts to future years." Specific cuts include funding for urban swimming and cooling islands, which is reduced from 8 to 1 million euros, and funding for projects such as the upgrade of a waste energy recovery plant, roadways, bike paths, and land purchases for tramway extensions. However, areas like housing, sports, economic development, and higher education are seeing increased funding, with a total of 65.6 million euros added to investment credits. Another resolution likely to cause controversy involves changes to the internal regulations of the Eurométropole council. The proposed rules include stricter limits on speaking time and submitted texts, as well as the abolition of resolutions and time limits for additional texts. Current issues and group interventions are now more regulated. In Strasbourg, these new rules led some groups to leave the session after their amendments were rejected by the majority. A new provision would reintroduce a permanent commission that will meet in private to examine certain points, which will no longer be brought before the Eurométropole council. This commission was originally established by Robert Herrmann in 2014 but later abolished by Jeanne Barseghian and Pia Imbs. Jeanne Barseghian, now in opposition, is concerned that political issues could be discussed in this private instance. Catherine Trautmann, however, defends the commission, stating it will only handle "technical points" and that any issue the elected officials wish to debate can still be discussed in the council. Point 56 proposes to revoke a resolution adopted on December 19, 2025, by the previous ecological majority, which expanded the strengthened urban preemption right to the Esplanade. The new majority considers this provision no longer justified and plans to work with residents, co-owners, merchants, and neighborhood actors to discuss the future of the shopping center and public spaces. This revocation had been announced by Catherine Trautmann as a campaign promise. However, several political groups, including the Ecologists and the centrist and LR group around Jean-Philippe Vetter, plan to intervene on this issue. Point 18 concerns a future governance pact between the communes and the Eurométropole. The principle was set by the new majority around Catherine Trautmann and right-wing elected officials Thibaud Philipps and Catherine Graef-Eckert. The proposal emphasizes the role of mayors as "first interlocutors of the residents" and holders of a democratic mandate that must be more considered in the construction of metropolitan policies. The text still needs to be debated and is not yet a definitively adopted pact but a launch of its elaboration. This is one of the political markers of the new metropolitan majority, aiming to show a different relationship between Strasbourg and the other communes of the agglomeration. The annual report on water and sanitation, at point 53, will also be followed. The document indicates that in 2025, the average price of water was 3.04 euros TTC per cubic meter, compared to 2.97 euros in 2024. The increase is attributed to the restructuring of the fees of the Rhine-Meuse Water Agency and the revision of the prices of the concessionaire. However, the document does not set the next prices on its own. It only indicates that the price of water must "preserve the ability of the annual budget to self-finance, while important investments remain programmed." According to documents consulted, the Eurométropole services are working on an increase of about one euro per month and per household, mainly related to sanitation, to fund future investments. The promise by Catherine Trautmann to make the first 15 cubic meters of water free has been set aside, and the resolution submitted to the vote on Friday does not revisit this promise or its abandonment, though the left opposition group from Schiltigheim plans to question on this point. Several resolutions also concern land operations, including the extension of the Fegersheim business area or land acquisitions and management in different communes. Several resolutions concern subsidies, notably points 20, 27, 29, 30, 32, 37, 40, 41, 42, 45, 47, 66, 67, 68, and 69. Jean-Philippe Maurer (The Republicans) must question the executive on security in the Eurométropole's public transport. Florian Kobryn (LFI) wishes to open a debate on student mobilization. However, a similar request submitted by Irène Weiss (LR), concerning violence related to blockades, was not accepted on the grounds that the subject did not sufficiently fall within the competences of the Eurométropole. The debate requested by the insoumise elected official could suffer the same fate.