Merge pull request #3107 from raydavis/raywip

CLC-4443 DRY the static assets setting
CLC-2750 - CFV Testing: transaction search has some quirks

https://jira.ets.berkeley.edu/jira/browse/CLC-2750
Merge pull request #3108 from christianv/CLC-2750

CLC-2750 - CFV Testing: transaction search has some quirks
CLC-4312 Add BackgroundJobsCheck status to Ping API