Members of the Nevada City Council will probe a failed small business assistance program and a $2,000-a-year solution to the city’s inability to maintain its oldest cemetery at their meeting tonight. In 2008, the city hired David Nelson to apply for a $300,000 community development block grant. Nelson secured the grant and it was used to start a business and microenterprise assistance loan program and classes for business startups, expansions and retentions and provide higher-risk loans than what are generally approved, according to a report City Manager David Brennan prepared for the council. Despite more than 100 prospective small-business owners’ …