Healy said the invitations were incorrect. "Someone in doing the invitations used the title of 'police chief,'" the manager said. "We don't have a police chief."
Anderson last month took and passed the test administered to all state police officers, because technically he was not yet a police officer in Massachusetts. Anderson--the city's first Black police head--was formerly chief of police in Miami.
The council also sent to a second reading an ordinance to prohibit the sale of machetes in the city.
Sullivan introduced the measure in November in the wake of several violent incidents in which citizens were assaulted with machetes.
Several councillors had wanted to amend the ordinance to empower Cambridge police to arrest offenders, to set a 30-day sentence for anyone found guilty of sale or possession of a machete and to ban in addition the possession of the knives.
But in a memorandum, Deputy City Solicitor Donald A. Drisdell ruled that none of the amendments are within the city's power and could only be enacted by the state legislature.