Legal Question in Administrative Law in California

Labor Code section 1771 has an exclusion for jobs costing less than $1,000, but otherwise a contractor must pay "not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality in which the public work is performed. This is echoed in the Public Contracts Code. If your contract is with the PUD, it is a public contract and the law applies. Is this the Grizzly Lake job? I used to be the attorney for the GLRID (Resort Improvement District) back before it became a PUD. I may have helped write the cost-sharing agreement. Seems to me there may have been a thought of having the property owners pay for the pipe, then dedicate it to the GLRID. Can't remember the outcome and was gone long before the job went to bid.