Mahoning Township officials said they don’t want their remarks made last week about the police department not shoveling their cars to be misconstrued.

At Wednesday’s board of supervisors meeting, Supervisor Deb McGowan said she couldn’t believe that the police department won’t shovel its own snow.

Supervisor Myron “Zeke” Blahy agreed with McGowan that the police department should be responsible, and added the township doesn’t have the manpower.

Afterward, supervisors agreed to send a letter to the police department stating they are responsible for shoveling their own parking lot.

However, Blahy said Sunday evening that their remarks have since generated a lot of scuttlebutt on social media.

“Apparently on Facebook, on (another news outlet), there’s a lot of buzz about Debbie and myself making that comment,” Blahy said. “They are taking it out of context and saying we want them to shovel the parking spots and walkways.”

Instead, Blahy said they would like the police department to merely brush snow/ice off their vehicles and shovel a path to the cars so they can clean them off and move them once the township road crew arrives to plow.

“We simply meant that they should shovel a small pathway to the cars so that they can start them to warm up and brush the snow off,” he said. “I do not think we ever meant for them to do the parking areas.”