If Frenchtown residents don’t want to see a bar come back to their neighborhood, they didn’t let the state know at a public hearing Monday.

A panel of representatives from the state’s Liquor Licensing and Compliance Division, as well as Assistant Attorney General Michelle Robert, traveled to the Westbrook Public Safety Building Monday to hear testimony about whether the state should overturn the City Council’s decision to deny a liquor license to residents looking to reopen the Skybox Bar and Grill on Brown Street.

The panel heard from the applicants, Allen and Lynn Moore, as well as representatives of the city, including Police Capt. Tom Roth and City Councilors Dotty Aube and Mike Foley.

No one from the public attending the hearing.

The Moores were represented by attorney David Chamberlain, and the city was represented by Bill Dale, city solicitor.

In August, Municipal Officers, which include the City Council and the mayor, voted 3-3 not to grant a liquor license to the Moores. They appealed that decision to the state later that month.

The Moores want to reopen the bar, last owned by Tom and Ellen Dore, who closed it when the City Council denied renewal of their liquor license in March.

Before the Dores opened the Skybox, the Brown Street location was home to Andy’s Tavern. In 1999, the City Council denied a renewal to owner Jerry King, who did appeal to the state. After a public hearing, the state approved the license over the city’s rejection.

Mayor Bruce Chuluda, who voted to approve the license in August, said Tuesday if there are residents who don’t want a bar on Brown Street, they lost their opportunity to make their case to the state.

“It’s too bad there wasn’t more” of a public showing, Chuluda said.

Of the councilors at the hearing Monday, Foley had voted to approve the license, while Aube did not.

Roth said the police department did not recommend denying the license to the Moores, as it did to the Dores, based on the number of calls for service received by police under the Dores’ ownership.

According to Jeff Austin, supervisor of the Liquor Licensing and Compliance Division, the decision to overturn the City Council vote is now in the hands of the division’s hearings officer. Austin said he had no estimated time for when that decision would be made.