17. In addition to the apportionment provided for in this Division and the payment provided for in the second paragraph of either of the sections referred to in section 1, the community may provide that it is to use the sum of all the contributions or any amount remaining after such apportionment or payment, as the case may be, to finance operating expenditures relating to equipment, infrastructures, services or activities of metropolitan scope, except the equipment referred to in Schedule V to the Act respecting the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (chapter C-37.01).