On Monday the Auburn City Council had been slated to give Mayor Nancy Backus the OK to complete an agreement that ends a dispute between Auburn and a local businessman over what he owes the City in back payments for parking and commercial space in the Sound Transit parking terminal at 23 A St. SW.

According to the settlement agreement, to close the matter, Harold Gambini, was to pay the City of Auburn $28,000 in full by Sept. 7, 2021.

But undisclosed legal issues put the settlement off to another day.

Here’s what the suit is all about.

In September of 2007, the City and Gambini entered into a 96-year sublease for “certain parking and commercial space” in the parking garage at A Street. Problem was, the City of Auburn had one idea about what Gambini owed, and he had another.

Sound Transit bills the City for the space the agency owns, and the City in turn bills Gambini under the terms of the sublease.

According to the City’s lawsuit, the City did not invoice Gambini between Sept. 7, 2007 and July 2011 because of an “embedded security fee” Sound Transit had billed the City. In December 2013, the City filed suit for what it was owed upon clarification of that same security fee.

According to the City’s lawsuit, Gambini had not paid maintenance, repair and operation costs from Sept 7, 2007 to Dec. 31, 2015.

While the City’s lawsuit was inching its way along the legal track, the City and Gambini worked out an agreement that purported to change the sublease agreement, clarifying what Gambini was responsible for and settle all claims.