{"id":203469,"date":"2026-05-27T13:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/203469\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:24:10","slug":"allentown-city-controller-jeff-glazier-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/203469\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown city Controller Jeff Glazier dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Glazier, Allentown\u2019s city controller for over a decade, died Tuesday night, according to the city.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Michaela Boyer confirmed his death Wednesday, and said Mayor Matt Tuerk has ordered Allentown flags on city property to fly at half-staff to honor his loss. Additional information is expected to be released later Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Jeff Glazier is a candidate for Allentown City Council. \/\/\/\/\/ - FEATURES - CONTRIBUTED PHOTO \/ AMICO STUDIOS 2014 ***** Glazier, Affa and MacLean win in Allentown (05\/20\/15) ***** Corruption investigation shapes Allentown council election (10\/23\/15) ***** Dems poised to sweep council race (11\/04\/15) ***** glazier tapped for Allentown controller (02\/02\/16) *****\" width=\"1800\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TMC-L-glazier2-1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"21223693\" \/>Jeff Glazier, pictured in this 2016 photo, died Tuesay,. Glazier was Allentown&#8217;s controller.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2016\/02\/01\/allentown-controller-vacancy-goes-to-councilman-jeff-glazier\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Glazier was appointed to the position as the city\u2019s financial watchdog in 2016<\/a>, and re-elected three times. Prior to his appointment, Glazier was a City Council member and a former member of the Allentown School Board. He operated the family business, Glazier\u2019s Furniture, until 2017, when it closed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allentownpa.gov\/en-us\/Government\/Elected-Offices\/City-Controller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to his profile on the city\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder his stewardship the office has worked to increase transparency, institute process flow audits, and monitor city unclaimed property,\u201d his profile states. As controller, Glazier also created a portal on the city\u2019s website for people to view city contracts and audits.<\/p>\n<p>He was on the school board from 1999 until 2012, and was a council member from 2012 until 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing. Check back later for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Glazier, Allentown\u2019s city controller for over a decade, died Tuesday night, according to the city. Spokesperson Michaela&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-203469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}