After Rainbow Health’s sudden closure in July that took clients and employees by surprise, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a petition on Wednesday asking for court supervision of the dissolution of the nonprofit that served the Twin Cities LGBTQ+ community for over 40 years.

A voluntary investigation was initiated, according to a press release from the Office of the Minnesota Attorney General. According to the petition, the Attorney General’s Office “continues to receive complaints from former Rainbow Health patients about the abrupt closure and from employees about payments for the thirty days’ notice to unionized employees.”

The union representing Rainbow Health employees has also continued to demand clarity on employee pay.

The petition said that Rainbow Health has cooperated with the investigation and provided financial details. They estimate the cost associated with the 30 days’ notice to unionized employees to be $268,666.91. That amount is in addition to the paid time off and severance that was requested by employees who did not receive them after being informed of the sudden closure.

Rainbow Health indicated a desire to “meet all legal obligations,” however, in a Sep. 19 update to the Attorney General’s Office, indicated that it might not have the sufficient funds to satisfy those obligations, including employee pay.

The court supervision process is outlined under the Minnesota Nonprofit Corporations Act and allows the court to help distribute a nonprofit’s assets in an efficient way when that nonprofit is being dissolved. The process is not considered an adversarial lawsuit, Ellison said in the news release.

“I believe court supervision is the proper next step in this case,” Ellison said. “It not only minimizes the risk of separate disputes about who gets what, it can give the employees the best shot to potentially get paid. I believe the parties can resolve these issues cooperatively and efficiently with the court’s supervision.”