cripplecreek you called it right.
In the OT, people had to pay back four times what they did. I say have them clean and fix it all, then three times the amount of work over. Of course, in today’s controlled society, that’s probably impossible - from parents insisting their kids can’t do the work to unions saying kids can’t do THEIR work.
But that’s the answer, in a good and common sense society.
Appoint the bit smart alec of the bunch to keep a photo and timesheet record rather than painting. That will really pi** off the "followers" and crimp the smart alec's leadershi* skills.
“... in a good and common sense society.”
There exists one of those wonderful places? Pray tell, where?
In the little town where I grew up we had one part time cop and we respected him for handling things his way. If he caught us doing something we shouldn’t have, he imposed his own brand of community service without the “benefit” of courts.
Lots of little projects around town got done cheaply because of it. Better yet as we got older we taking care of things without being asked. I remember finding my cousin with his lawn tractor and a trailer raking the wide road shoulder were we parked next to the park. Someone had broken a beer bottle and he was cleaning it up so nobody punctured a tire or cut their feet.