Campbelltown Mayor Simon Brewer highlights leisure centre upgrade as top priority over next four years Returned Campbelltown Mayor Simon Brewer. Picture Roger Wyman Source: News Limited FINISHING the $24.5 million Campbelltown Leisure Centre redevelopment and cutting power costs will top all but re-elected Campbelltown mayor Simon Brewer's agenda for the next four years. He secured 5675 first preference votes by East Torrens Messenger presstime, ahead of challenger Aldo Perilli, who was on 4489 votes in the race for mayor. Mr Brewer, 49, has been mayor since 2006 and finished 374 votes ahead of Mr Perilli in 2010. He named the Campbelltown Leisure Centre redevelopment as a key project he wanted to see finished. Plans for the upgrade include squash courts and an eight-lane pool. "The Campbelltown Leisure Centre redevelopment has been a long time in the planning and I want to see that completed," Mr Brewer said. The centre is the most important sporting centre in eastern Adelaide, it services a huge amount of people, but it was built 40 years ago. So getting it up to good standard and also providing an indoor pool facility in the east is really important. MORE: Heads of residents" groups win seats on Norwood, Payneham & St Peters Council Work on the major revamp is expected to start early next year and be finished in August 2016. The State and Federal governments, along with State Swim, Squash SA, and the council are funding the project. Mr Brewer wanted the council to increase its reliance on renewable energy and install LED street lighting. He said he would talk with neighbouring councils to start a "co-operative" approach to rolling out energy-efficient lighting. MORE: Returned Burnside Mayor David Parkin says election result a pat on the back for a job well done "We need to be looking more carefully at our street lights," Mr Brewer We have to pay for all the power of the street lights and in Campbelltown's case it's about $700,000 and we have absolutely no control over it. Changing to LED street lights would not only improve the way the streets are lit, but save masses of energy and costs.