Two potential new templates
Now I remember why this template was a bunch of work: EE’s library on their site is actually quite small. We’d have to hack on either of these a bit to make them fit.
As an alternative, going through our current templates and cleaning up may be just easier.
Here’s two possibilities (remember, evaluate layout, not colour scheme):
http://expressionengine.com/files/templates/view/firda_01/ (ditch the inset box)
and
http://expressionengine.com/files/templates/view/firda_03/ (buys us a shorter sidebar at the cost of some width. I’d likely make the sidebars fixed width and use up the rest for the middle column.)
The first one lets us put a bunch of our links that we use all the time on the horizontal bar.

Comments
Kevan:
I quite like the first one, apart from the needlessly fixed width of it. We could use the floating “Reading” box for pending proposals.
Darknight:
First one
Wakukee:
Neither… I like it as is!
Ienpw III:
First.
Qwazukee:
Current.
arthexis:
Another question regarding EE: Does it support adding tags to posts? If it did, we could incorporate that into creating proposals of specific types.
Also I think the Proposal categories need a cleanup (wth is the null category?)
Klisz:
First; it looks like the old BN!
Klisz:
Actually, current.