Middle Smithfield Township is headed for bankruptcy if officials don't curb persistent losses at the golf course, Supervisor Bob Spano Sr. warned Thursday. Yet supervisors remain trapped in the sand when it comes to a solution. There appears to be no majority support on the three-member board for any immediate action, whether closing the course or leasing it to a golf management firm. Supervisors Scott Schaller and Mitchell Marcus constantly traded charges Thursday that the other was responsible for inaction and inconsistency. Spano, who once supported Schaller's vision of converting the financially troubled private course and clubhouse at Country Club of the Poconos home development into a township gem, wants to close it immediately. "Do you want bankruptcy or do you want to sell it?" Spano asked, saying township Budget Director Sherry Predmore told him the course could drive Middle Smithfield into bankruptcy next year. "Mrs. Predmore has said to me over and over, 'We can't sustain these losses next year.'" Spano backed away from the bankruptcy statement following the meeting, but repeated that the course is hurting the township's bottom line. Predmore declined comment.
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