Our Lodge Dues are $250 AUD with GL $125. Our Lodge is part owner of the building. We pay rent, but that's the only financial contribution the lodge makes to the Building OR that the building seeks - we ask for co-operation and labour, but that's not cleaning, its generally business acumen in properly administering the hall and to see it generate an income to funds its operating expenses. Lodge dues are for running the Lodge, not the building. The Lodge does not pay a peppercorn rent anymore, but have long recognized that income derived from Lodges and Masonic Activity will not fund the building. Our biggest project over the last decade (as we have done a quite a few) was probably about $30K. Lodge rent is not going to fund that, so the building must generate an income and seek grants from other sources, mainly external users.
The Lodge and the Building Association (once a Trust but we converted it into a better structure) are run by two distinct legal entities with distinct roles and officers. Discussions on one generally do not enter the official meetings of the other, but sometimes they write to each other with requests, suggestions and information.
The main discussion which is useful in a Tyled Lodge is philosophical. Other discussions should be encouraged outside the lodge, and if necessary at specific meetings to talk about operational matters, for both the Lodge (being a separate meeting, WM generally presiding) and the Building (being a separate meeting again, President, a PM, presiding). Speculative Freemasons should not be talking roof repairs or plumbing works in their meeting.. that's for other forums and mixing the two sees competing goals, often with long and tedious "contributions" of very little worth. They are counterproductive. its a good way to kill a lodge.
If you want to address the building, keep it out of your Lodge meetings.. and lodge meetings, when it comes to any operational matter, should be to ratify a decision already thrashed out in other inclusive and open forums.