Hi, In my capacity as the Council liaison to the Standing Committee on Improvements, I am submitting this motion to adopt modifications to the GNSO Operating Procedures proposed by the SCI. These modifications involve both the process for GNSO Councillors to submit motions, in addition to the process to elect a GNSO Council Chair/Vice-Chair(s). As all SCI recommendations go, the SCI has achieved full consensus on these recommendations, and a public comment period on the proposed modifications was opened on July 2nd 2016, and closed on August 14th 2016 (https://www.icann.org/public-comments/gnso-op-procedures-2016-07-05-en). With the creation of the GNSO Review WG, these should be the final two projects the SCI will have worked on before it is standing-no-more, and I just wanted to say that working on this committee has been a pleasure. The SCI’s done some really solid work for the GNSO over the years, and its members have worked very well to give the GNSO Council recommendations that have been very diligently thought out. Both present and past members of the SCI have my gratitude. Thanks. Amr