Alice Springs will get only half as much as its Town Council asked for, and much later than expected. This is the response by Mayor Damien Ryan to the campaign promises made by Chief Minister Paul Henderson last Friday. Mayor Ryan says the council asked for $5m in 2012/13 to continue the town centre re-development, but will only get $2.5m, deferred and over two years, 2014 to 2016. Labor, if re-elected, would spend the shortfall of $2.5m on broadcast-standard floodlights for Traeger Park oval -- something that the council did not ask for. Meanwhile the Country Liberal Member for Braitling, Adam Giles, says the Labor government announced in a press release in 2004 that lights suitable for TV coverage had been installed. "Is this an admission that they stuffed up last time as the last set of lights erected in 2004 or 2005 was supposed to be up to the required standard for night time television broadcast? See project information by GHD." Mayor Ryan says the council did ask for lights at Albrecht Oval but this isn't in Mr Henderson's current program. Mayor Ryan says the first $5m from the government for the CBD facelift will be spent in this financial year. "By Christmas the Parsons Street section will be done and by mid next year, the Todd Street section," he says. "It's pretty disappointing that the CBD doesn't rate before 2014-15 which is a long way away. "We don't have a rate base to be able to do this