Building Priorities

A quote from the shul website:

The Roslyn Synagogue is currently undergoing an expansion. Recently completed, the newly redesigned kitchen is beautifully upgraded. An enlarged children’s area is currently in the planning stages.

This is a great example of a shul whose priorities are all wrong.

1. The first things upgraded were the kitchen and mens room. Now, the kitchen is used by, at most, 10% of the membership (how many people actually go into the kitchen?) Not a wise way to spend a limited amount of funds.
2. The mens room was not redone properly. In a small bathroom, there isn't room for two stalls; at most a stall plus a urinal. If the door to the bathroom can't be closed, then clearly the bathroom was remodeled incorrectly. In fact, already the door to one of the stalls doesn't even close or lock.
3. Not only wasn't the mens room done up wrong, it shouldn't have been remodeled at this point at all. The ladies room should've had a much higher priority. Let's face it, if a couple is visiting the shul, and the guy has to use an old bathroom, he's not going to care much either way. But when his wife has to use the poor excuse we have for a ladies room, I guarantee they're not coming back for a long time.
4. See the quote above: the kitchen (irrelevant) has been redone already, but the children's area (most important) is only in the planning stages. So our liquor is taken care of well, but our children are kept in a gross room with no walls, conducive to wilding and injury but not to learning and proper behavior.