Bend is scheduled this week to take a serious step toward meeting its climate change goals. The Bend City Council is going to pick 11 people out of 52 applicants for positions on the city’s climate action steering committee.

The committee will come up with recommendations for city government and the community as a whole to reach the goal of reducing fossil fuel use by 40 percent by 2030 and 70 percent by 2050. City government also has a goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030.

What will the committee recommend? It’s anybody’s guess. But it’s easy to see some of the things the city has already been doing. Some of it has made a lot of sense, but some of it is silly.

The city has been able to do some smart things to save itself money by reducing energy use. It managed to cut electricity use by about $30,000 between 2013 and 2016. It has had plans to look at ways to reduce fuel use by its vehicle fleet.

More broadly, the city has said such community plans generally look at four areas — greening the energy grid (more solar, hydropower), increasing building energy efficiency (insulation and smart thermostats and lights), transportation efficiency (less driving) and use of waste and materials (recycling).

One recurring theme in the city’s efforts is the parking blues. The city has been singing the tune of making it harder to find a place to park for years. It has flirted with residential parking zones. It has proposed more paid parking. It has cracked down on parking enforcement. It has considered reducing parking requirements for new buildings.

All of that comes from a well-intentioned effort to encourage people not to drive so much. But all of it adds up to trying to create change through a bit of everyday misery. A city and the climate change committee should have more respect for its residents than that.