PASADENA >> The long-awaited independent report on the Kendrec McDade officer involved shooting will be released to the city Thursday but its contents will remain largely secret, officials said.

The report comes more than two years after the March 2012 shooting of the unarmed 19-year-old. It will provide a series of recommendations on how the Pasadena Police Department could have better handled the incident and the subsequent internal investigation.

The full report, which includes the analysis and reasoning behind the recommendations, will not be released to the public, City Manager Michael Beck said. Instead, he said, the OIR recommendations will be presented at an upcoming Public Safety Committee meeting along with the responses from the police department.

“The public won’t see the discussion leading up to the recommendations because in many ways that relates to personnel issues,” Beck said. “The recommendations really are the significant part of the report, so the public should feel confident they are seeing the substance of the investigation.”

Pasadena police officers Mathew Griffin and Jeffrey Newlen fatally shot McDade following a call of an alleged armed robbery. McDade was later found to be unarmed. The District Attorney’s Office cleared the officers in the shooting. The city last month agreed to a nearly $1 million settlement with McDade’s parents in two separate civil rights and wrongful death lawsuits.

For months, community leaders have pressed the city to expedite the report and have pushed for a release of the full document. NAACP President Gary Moody said he would comment on the report when it is released, but said he was disappointed that the full report would not be available to the public.

“You ask for a cheese sandwich and you get two pieces of bread. The sandwich is not complete without the cheese,” Moody said. “It’s not full disclosure.”

Moody and Beck met to discuss the report this week but Moody declined to comment on the discussion.

Beck said he will meet with OIR attorney Michael Gennaco and his team on Thursday, along with City Attorney Michele Beal Bagneris and Police Chief Phillip Sanchez to discuss the report.

“They can walk us through the recommendations, it puts it in context,” Beck said. “It’s helpful for us so we can understand it. Ultimately, we want feedback from them so we can continue to make the Pasadena Police Department a model department even more than it already is.”

Sanchez has said he plans to take the OIR report recommendations seriously and implement any changes that could improve department policy.

“I don’t wait for an OIR report necessarily to look at contemporary training dynamics. My firearms team, my defensive tactics team, my training sergeant, they are always looking at what is contemporary, what is best practices,” Sanchez said in an interview shortly after the legal settlement in the lawsuit was reached. “Ultimately, I think when OIR finishes off their final report and presents that to me, that I’ll look at the findings and the recommendation and I’ll evaluate them and take them seriously.”

The OIR report will be the second in the city’s history. The agency’s report on the February 2009 fatal officer-involved shooting of Leroy Barnes was filed in December 2009 and released in February 2010 with police department responses. The department accepted 13 of the 14 recommendations for improvement, agreeing to implement changes based on the agency’s analysis.

Barnes, a 38-year-old parolee, was shot 11 times by officers Michael Alvarado and Charles Reep during a traffic stop on North Mentone Avenue. He was armed.