Specifications include, but are not limited to: Fabrication and Installation of Oakwood Cemetery Burial monument with foundation. The City of Austin (City), through its Parks and Recreation Department (“PARD”), seeks to establish a contract with a qualified Contractor(s) to provide fabrication of a monument with headstones (“Memorial”), as described in Exhibit 1 (Architectural Drawings), and setting and leveling services, as delineated in Exhibit 2 (Cemetery Regulations), for the Oakwood Cemetery Chapel Memorial (“Memorial”) located at 1601 Navasota Street. In 2017, during renovation work, the City discovered the historic 1914 Oakwood Chapel was constructed over 37 existing graves. This Memorial is to acknowledge and commemorate the individuals buried in the cemetery before the construction of the Oakwood Cemetery Chapel. The Chapel also sits within the Historic Colored Grounds, where more than 2,700 African American are buried, as well as hundreds of people of Mexican and European descent. Interment records list burials in this area as taking place in the “Colored Grounds,” “Negro Grounds,” “Stranger’s Grounds,” “Mexican Grounds,” and “Pauper Grounds.” This language is a clear reminder that the segregation by race and by socioeconomic class that defined people in life, also defined them in death.
