At a Tuesday Grass Valley City Council meeting filled with appointments to various committees and grim portrayals of talks with area fire agencies about shared management, Police Chief John Foster reported theft crimes in Nevada County in 2012 spiked significantly. “As far as crime goes, it is up in the areas of theft, burglary and vehicle theft,” Foster told council members in his quarterly report. The number of incidents of reported burglaries increased by 62 percent, from 164 to 265 between 2011 and 2012, according to Foster’s figures. The number of vehicle thefts jumped 44 percent, Foster reported. While there …