Commissioners are scheduled to convene at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, when, according to the advance agenda, they have only four items of new business to take up.

One of them is a presentation by Person County Animal Control Director Ron Shaw who will appeal to the commissioners on behalf of the County Animal Shelter staff and volunteers to allow a walking track to be developed on county-owned land behind the shelter off Chub Lake Road and across the street from Stories Creek Elementary School The track would be used primarily to exercise pets from the shelter.

In a memo to commissioners, Shaw explained that about 18 months ago the shelter joined with the Wellness Group through the Person County Health Department wherein people could come and walk the dogs that the shelter has up for adoption. Some 120 volunteers now participate in what is called the “Strut-A-Mutt” program.

The program, Shaw’s memo said, “has enabled citizens of Person County to gain valuable exercise and the dogs have become more adoptable through this training and socialization process.”

If allowed to use the county land, a level track “more visually pleasing to volunteers” could be established, said the memo, which also pointed out that volunteers and the dogs now walk laps around the shelter. In doing so, they must avoid a steep incline.

The land, which is not now in use for any other purpose, would require clearing and grading. The shelter proposes to install a walking track, fencing and access gates, provided county zoning regulations do not prohibit such a use.

Volunteers and shelter staff would provide upkeep, according to the proposal, with the exception of mowing and any heavy maintenance.

The memo did not address the cost of the project.

In other matters on Monday’s agenda, commissioners are to:

• Consider Legacy Land Group’s concept plan for a major residential subdivision, Talley Pointe, Phase 2, off of Barefoot Landing Lane, which is off the Semora Road in Cunningham Township. The plan proposes development of 20 lots, each of at least 15,000 square feet, on a 17.87-acre tract adjacent to Talley Pointe, Phase 1 approved by the county in February a year ago.

Legacy Land Group also is seeking a variance so that Barefoot Landing Lane will not have to be upgraded to N.C. Department of Transportation standards. The road already is paved and meets state all DOT standards with the exception of vertical sight distance.

The concept plan, as well as the road variance, has the favorable recommendation of the Person County Planning Board, subject to the developer meeting typically required conditions.

• Consider a proposal from the accounting firm of Winston, Williams, Creech, Evans & Co. to perform the annual county audit for fiscal 2008, 2009 and 2010.

• Act on the Roxboro Fire Department’s request to have a county surplus vehicle transferred for use by the RFD.

Commissioners will meet in room 215 of the Person County Office Building on South Morgan Street.