Is it acceptable to bring up the $400K office renovation during the down hall meeting?

Recently the finance group renovated their entire office for around $400K. To the rest of our site (we manufacture/design), it is viewed as an atrocity. Even most people see very little benefit from the office renovation when you factor in the cost.

This perception of an atrocity is mutliplied by about 10x by the time you reach the shop floor. In a day and age when spending money has gotten tougher for operational, value-add folks, this is a tough pill to swallow. Approval limits have been lowered. Many barriers have gone up to spending. Over the last couple of yeears these include layers of internaltional approvals, new/additional forms and templates, written & unwritten rules, and data analysis requirements.  The operational folks feel as if they need to get 5 approvals and wait 6 months to order a box of paper clips.

We are going to have a town hall meeting soon where site management addresses everyone together. On the memo, it has a place for individuals to request management to answer their questiosn (submit them ahead of time, "anonymously").

Four options

• Opt 1: Ask the questioin during open Q&A at the town hall meeting.
• Opt 2:  Submit the question in writing prior to the meeting with my name.
• Opt 3:  Submit the question in writing prior to the meeting "Anonymously".
• Opt 4:  Do nothing.

Obviously, I am not going to take option 1. I can't see any circumstance where that is appropriate.For option 2, I don't feel this is possible. Career limiting move for me, for sure.

This leaves option 3 and 4.

For option 3,, I feel it is justified to ask management to explain to everyone why they spent the $400K on the renovation. Perhaps there is a business reason, and they simply have not explained it. Some have categorized this spending as unethical. Especially since finance is the one who is charged with heading up the spending approval process. What kind of a message does it send to everyone at our site if they can spend but give everyone else a hard time who wants to spend $10K for a legitimate purpose/business need?

The arguement for option 4, is simply that it would be a career limiting move to associate my name with a question like this. To put senior management "On the spot" in front of the site is not acceptable and unprofessional. I also feel it is a bit of a coward move to submit the question in writing prior to the meeting, without attaching my name. Perhaps there is some businees need or requirement that most are not aware of as to why they did this. My only recourse for this one is to bury it in my delta file.

What do you think?