LIVERMORE FALLS – Selectmen voted Monday to renew Riverview Pub’s liquor license.

The decision followed complaints about parking and trash problems but not about the actual license.

Police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. said the bar owners have been working with police to iron out any problems that arise. Some of the complaints police received pertain to people parking in spots they’re not supposed to, leaving garbage, including cigarette butts, in the parking lot across Depot Street, people congregating in outside areas, and damage to a vehicle.

“We specifically tell people not to park in that parking lot,” bar owner Wes Bowen said of the Depot Street lot.

He asked how police know it’s people who patronize his bar who park there.

“It’s happening between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.,” resident and building owner Ken Jacques said.

Jacques has posted the parking lot prohibiting parking between those hours. His tenant, Group Adams Propane Services, keeps its vehicles and equipment there.

Jacques said Bruce Adams, owner of that company, had one of his trucks backed into Thursday night or Friday causing between $2,000 and $3,000 damage.

Jacques said he was going to get grant money to fix up his building and part of that will be putting larger, more visible signs on parking.

“I’ve had enough. It’s not Wes’ fault. It’s people going to the bar,” Jacques said. “I’ve just had it being the garbage can and bathroom over there,”

Bowen said he cannot pay a person to stand over there to monitor the place.

“We do try to keep them parking in public parking,” he said.

Adams said there is debris often left in the area.

He had about $2,500 in damage done to his truck, he said.

“I’ve kind of had it,” Adams said.

Jacques said he cannot lose a tenant over it.

Bowen said he thinks the lot should be posted better. People traveling from out of town to the bar don’t know not to park there, he said.