Susan Kim

Evidence vintage (summary). Verified 1 Sep 2026 against the Victoria For All launch and platform, major-outlet coverage, City biography, current personal and slate social profiles, the 2022 platform and four-year council record. The previous “status unconfirmed” note is obsolete: the 15 Aug launch confirmed bids for both council and CRD director.

Web, campaign & socials (checked 1 Sep 2026). Victoria For All campaign · Candidate/slate page · Personal site—not accessible in this check · X · Instagram · Facebook · Slate Facebook · Slate Instagram · Slate TikTok · Slate Threads · Slate Bluesky

Profile. Susan Kim (김수잔) is a first-term Victoria councillor with a background in food security, community organizing, adult education, policy and operations. The City biography records work with both provincial and federal governments and Island Health, as well as involvement with the Civic Orchestra of Victoria, LifeCycles Project Society, the Victoria Korean Women’s Association and union locals. Kim’s 2022 profile described a trilingual Korean-Canadian settler, renter and then-director of operations at Fernwood NRG. First elected with 14,005 votes—the second-highest council total in 2022—Kim has emphasized renter protections, non-market housing, transit, climate action, harm reduction and access to public space. For voters, the 2026 campaign adds a significant governance fact: Kim is no longer running only as an independent but with the openly democratic-socialist Victoria For All organization, while also seeking a directly elected CRD position.

2026 campaign and social verification. Victoria For All publicly endorsed Kim on 15 Aug 2026 for re-election and for CRD director, alongside council candidate Peter Rose Gibbs and school-board candidate Maiya Beech. The organization identifies itself as a “working class, democratic, socialist, electoral and community organization.” Its four campaign pillars are housing, care, climate and community. Published commitments include doubling City spending on affordable public, non-profit and co-operative housing while protecting existing affordable rentals; creating a 24-hour mental-health crisis response; expanding outreach and harm-reduction access; expanding free transit; investing in heat pumps, green roofs and urban trees; and creating more gathering places and arts, recreation and cultural events. The personal susankim.ca site did not load, so the slate site is the current platform source of record. Kim’s Facebook and Instagram remain online; Instagram’s bio is current but general rather than explicitly electoral. A current-post chronology for X was not reliably available. The slate maintains active Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Threads and Bluesky identities and links them directly from its website.

Sources. Victoria For All, candidate/slate page, Times Colonist launch coverage, Victoria News launch coverage, City biography, 2022 candidate materials, council records and current social profiles. Slate promises are current campaign positions; implementation costs and City-versus-CRD jurisdiction remain unstated.

Current-platform note. The August slate launch is material new evidence, particularly the proposed doubling of municipal housing spending and 24-hour mental-health response. Those commitments require a formal measure crosswalk because they may strengthen M6/M11/M26b and alter prior counts. The existing marks below are preserved until the 11 Sep lock rather than changed piecemeal. Missing details include baselines, dollar amounts, staffing, CRD cost-sharing, funding sources, transit jurisdiction and delivery dates.

📋 Accountability. No permit benchmarks, no dashboard. ❌ on managed competition removed in v1.8 — her disclosed Labour Council commitment concerned P3s, a different instrument from competitive testing of an in-house service. Her posture is plausibly unfavourable and remains unstated.

📋 Contested item on the public record, added July 31 2026 because its absence from this page was a completeness failure. In November 2023 her name appeared on an archived open letter, first signed by former Ontario MPP Sarah Jama, which called for a Gaza ceasefire and cast doubt on sexual-violence accusations arising from the October 7 Hamas attack. Per CBC News, a petition "with over 8,500 signatures as of Monday evening" sought "her official censure… a ban on her wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf in council and her removal from all official board appointments." BC Opposition leader Kevin Falcon called for her resignation and Municipal Affairs Minister Anne Kang said she should apologise. Two qualifications belong with it: CBC reported it could not independently verify that she signed the letter, and Jama later stated she was not the author and asked to be removed. This is recorded as a contested item, not scored against any measure. It is not a municipal policy position and does not enter the four-value scale. It is here because a voter judging her is entitled to find it on the page that claims to be the complete record.

➕ Evidence sweep 2, 2 Sep 2026. Read with the filled rating card. Susan Kim · Council · inc. The card moved from 4 scored answers to 17 / 55 on this sweep. Internal proposal C.

New source class: named roll calls. Vote Ready Victoria publishes for/against lists by councillor for every non-unanimous vote of this term, across housing, public safety, homelessness, transportation, budget and governance. It is the single biggest gap this page had. ⚠️ Caveat: its dates are unreliable — category index pages and item pages disagree on at least six items, in a pattern that looks like adjacent rows paired with the wrong dates. Treat every date from it as provisional until checked against eScribe or press.

Kim roll calls newly sourced. With the Program: DCC waiver for below-market housing YES 8–1 (M8); displaced-tenant compensation YES 7–2 and the unanimous 30 Jul 2026 enhancement (M9, the Program's own instrument); Russell Street 40-unit supportive housing YES 6–3 and shelter/social-service zoning YES 6–3 (M11); Our Place $100K stop-gap YES 6–2; Delegation Bylaw YES 8–1 (M7 approval speed); OCP YES 5–3 and parking-minimum reduction YES 6–3 (M6); overnight-sheltering park bans YES twice (M34–M37); Pandora $9,000 cleanup pilot YES 7–2 (M14–M18); downtown cinema retention YES 7–2 (M46b); hotel density + temporary tax exemption YES 7–2, 25 Jul 2026 (M71–M73); Victoria Curling Club $175K ice plant YES 7–2 (M52); active-transportation funding YES 6–3 (M41); provincial AT funding request YES 7–2, 15 Jun 2026 (M70b). Against it: 2026 budget NO (M66); Nov 2025 infrastructure reduction to hold tax to 4% NO (M66); daytime-sheltering enforcement lone NO 8–1 (M33). Adjacent, shown not scored: VicPD 2024 budget NO 6–3, police staffing NO 7–2, officer hiring cut YES 5–4 — none touches M29's Esquimalt formula or M29b's regional review; council-pay CPI cap NO 3–6 — not M79f's deferral instrument; public-comment time cut 5→3 minutes YES 7–2.

⚖️ Correction — budget quote and date. Earlier text on this page and on the live site carried a paraphrase ("the tax hike was simply not enough"). The sourced verbatim is: "It's so funny to me that we're at each other's throats about this when the system itself is just flawed. We're being asked to tax in a way that just sucks." She also said, of the savings exercise, "The benefit of this exercise this year … we actually did find places we could cut back reasonably." Vote date confirmed 7 May 2026 (Victoria News, 11 May 2026); the volunteer tracker's "9 May" is wrong.

⚖️ Completeness — the Code of Conduct outcome was missing, in both directions. An independent investigator's June 2024 report found she had breached the City's Code of Conduct over the November 2023 open letter. On 27 Jun 2024 council voted 7–1 not to sanction her, with Coun. Gardiner the lone vote for sanction; councillors were directed to training instead. This page recorded the petition and the CBC caveats but neither the finding nor the vote. Both belong here: the finding runs against her, the 7–1 outcome runs for her. Times Colonist · council minutes. Not a municipal policy position and not scored on any measure.

📋 Recusal, 9 May 2026. She recused herself from the FernFest grant vote; she is a former director of operations at Fernwood NRG. Recorded so her absence is not read as silence.

📋 A completed 2026 questionnaire exists and is not public. Homes for Living ranks her in its top eight council candidates on housing and states her "answers to the housing survey were thoughtful and comprehensive" and that "her housing platform was more detailed than most of her peers running for office." The ranking is a third-party assessment and is not a source for any measure. The fact it reports is the lead: there is a Kim housing platform and a set of questionnaire answers that no public page carries. Request both before the 11 Sep lock.

Kim-owned 2026 sentences located — two, neither a policy instrument. "I'm proud of what has been accomplished over the past four years at City Hall, and now I'm excited to continue that work with Victoria For All" and "At the heart of this campaign is a belief that Victoria is strongest when everyone feels they belong here. We're committed to creating the community connections and investing in strong social foundations that make that possible" (Victoria Buzz, 17 Aug 2026). The second matters beyond its content: she speaks in the slate's voice as her own, which is the strongest argument for scoring the Victoria For All platform as her 2026 programme, the same treatment this page already directs for Gibbs.

Open rulings carried on the card, not settled here. (1) Does the slate platform count as her programme? Scoring it moves the card to n = 20, mean 1.53 — the proposed letter is C either way. (2) Do Record actions score when no 2026 promise contradicts them? Read strictly, she would sit at n = 0 and a permanent dash, as would every incumbent without a personal platform.