WELCOME BUCKS: The Irvine Barclay Theatre gets...

WELCOME BUCKS: The Irvine Barclay Theatre gets its $1.1-million annual budget mainly from the city and UCI. It doesn’t have an endowment, but Irvine Mayor Sally Anne Sheridan says that can be solved. She predicts that trustees will raise $6 million of a projected $15-million fund in the next five years. . . . They’re off to a great start. “We already have a $300,000 gift committed,” she says.