While the Grass Valley and Nevada City school boards agreed to continue to meet on consolidating the two districts, neither felt ready to begin crafting an official petition to do so. Members requested information on a few specific issues before they begin to draft an official petition. “We owe it to the kids, the staff, the electorate to not have just a single-page petition,” said Frank Bennallack, a Grass Valley board member, at the fourth joint meeting of the two districts to discuss consolidation facilitated by Holly Hermansen, the Nevada County Superintendent of Schools. Among the more predominate pieces of …