"We had to make a decision between making payroll or paying the debt," Melton said Monday."If we are unable to make payroll Oct. 19, we will definitely be able to make it next week Oct. 26 based on the nature of our sales taxes coming in at the end of the month. However we will have payroll the following week again on Nov. 2 and we are not sure we will be able to make that payroll because of the lack of revenue that is coming in."
They are trying to figure out how to pay their debt and their employees all on time. 
They're not sure they can, but since they're talking about it they're trying to figure out if they can manage it and how they should do it. 
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